I've had the opposite experience with *consumer graphics*, but granted I use linux exclusively. For games and graphics, AMD Radeon *just works* and I have no problems whereas Nvidia does not especially with things like sleep states. Switch that around for ML or compute and I can say ROCm doesn't work at all (again for *consumer graphics*), whereas CUDA *just works* due to AMD's refusal to actually support consumer grade hardware in ROCm. Then again, AMD with vulkan is fine assuming the ML product you're using has vulkan support.

I had to look this up, apparently Entra ID is an evolution of ADFS or Active Directory Federation in the cloud. I guess you get what you deserve if you're using Microsoft security products in the cloud. Also, Entra ID is a terrible name but AD is a terrible product so I guess its an evolution of the same terrible security issues.

Neither - Teams is an awful product. ;)
 
LLM is not some magic wand for data - its an API. You feed data in, you get text out. All of that data you are feeding in is ALREADY IN their api the moment you click 'send', it stored in their storage cloud, there for their parsing. If there's any "IP" or trading data in teams its already being consumed on the backend and processed by LLM, if thats your conspiracy...
 
The only *new* thing it could possibly get is "how are people interacting with an LLM Agent in Teams", which seems like useful feedback for a product that is subpar and given away free if you have 365 already.

Why would they need to do that from Teams? If you're already using Teams its because your organization is neck deep in Windows/Office365. Your Crown Jewels are most likely already in the hands of trust of MS. And I think you underestimate *just how much* interoffice drama and "lunch time restaurant votes" and emojis and memes you'd have to crawl through to get that one piece of insider info that actually had value.... And getting an 'agent' to scour that from Teams? I mean.....the data is *already in* Teams, seems super inefficient to have an AI Copilot Agent do the heavy lifting here.

Bingo... these are marketing and product design issues. There are no genuine moral or philosophical concerns for American capitalist, save those that can be productized (preferably with a monthly subscription fee).

Pixel? Samsung?

Remember - the Federation reserved the Death Penalty for making AI Androids.

Noonian Soong had to exile himself to a remote planet outside Federation control to work on Data and Lore (and his sexbot...).

They needed people to be able to have jobs *that* badly.

Which ... stop sending redshirts outside the ship with magnetic boots in a radiation storm, OK? They could have at least had some astromech droids. Sheesh!

I recently got a "plastic" target that changes color and the holes mostly self-heal if you don't use a hollow-point.

Good for plinking but they do wear out eventually.

I didn't even know this material existed before a buddy told me they were on Amazon. Amazing times, for sure.

Heck, I picked up some 100-lb test fishing line the other day that is some sort of braided heavy-chain polyethylene that is 11 times stronger than steel wire at the same size. The company made mechanical spinnerets to mimic spiders' to get it to work.

Again, I had no idea until a buddy told me it was $20 on Amazon.

Wild.

Back in the day we'd install wild boards that would upgrade the Mac CPU's by a generation or two, add FPU's, etc.

All of this depended on the systems being too expensive to replace or buy new except once in a blue moon.

At $600 which is probably $200 in 1986 money, it's a bit harder to be mad.

Those systems were probably $10K in 2025 dollars. Heck, a few were $10K in 1986 dollars.

My credit score is well over 800 and I don't see how I'm exploitable. I haven't paid any CC fees or interest in decades, and have no debt anywhere else. But maybe I'm missing something obvious. Can you explain a bit? (serious question).

You can do that with any modern phone but people don't do it....
 
Consider this the 'celeron' of Apple. Some people want an Apple product because they want an Apple product, they don't do any real productivity work on it. For $599 it will have a crap (for apple) monitor and something worse than the butterfly keyboard and will probably get 30 hours of battery life, and will give all the fanbois/apologists yet more things to declare 'total dominance' over any other choice.

I wasn't trying to be insulting though I can see I hit a sore spot with you. AMD is not outselling Intel in the DC - they had a good year but I don't know of any DC that is buying more AMD than Intel chips, unless its an AMD only company, and there are a few...Giving you the benefit of the doubt (which google searches easily show is wrong), this STILL means the vast majority of hardware, today, in a DC, is STILL Intel. Enterprises aren't just throwing away their servers. Hell my last gig ~25% of our servers were 10 years old (and buying 5k new every quarter)
 
Nvidia absolutely wants to ensure that Intel remains on top because its in their best interest. On Top doesn't mean who has sold more chips to gamers last year - if you walk into any DC you'll find 75-90% of their silicon is Intel, and if its an AI DC a higher percentage will be Nvidia compute.
 
For the record, I own lots of AMD and think they have much better products than Intel, but that doesn't change the enterprise reality of momentum, though its changing rapidly and Nvidia sees this...

Intel can't even make their own chips at a competitive level when it comes to latest and greatest techniques. ;) If there's some problem where TSMC can't provide chips, Nvidia AND AMD AND Intel will all have problems, along with just about every other chip manufacturer.

You obviously don't work in a datacenter or with enterprise hardware - it doesn't matter what benchmarks you're looking at, large companies are still buying tons of Intel chips because they already have a ton of Intel chips. And you're right, CUDA has more market penetration than ROCm but that doesn't change what I said - AMD is the only *real* rival to the products Nvidia makes.
 
The more DC start to get AMD, the better their automation teams will get at patching the firmware and performance tuning for Epyc, which again is an entirely different skillset than just "rack and run". Should companies start to *actually buy* MI35x en masse, then Nvidia will feel their biggest profit/margin maker threatened.
 
This investment is ensuring people don't run *any* AMD anything in the DC.

More like a frenemy - Nvidia does not have any sort of market in the datacenter where Intel competes, at all, and would much rather see Intel Xeon chips and motherboards running their AI compute stack than AMD Epycs - because AMD is the *real* rival to where Nvidia makes the bulk of their money (hint: its not to gamers)... Intel compute cards cannot compete on the enterprise level at all with Nvidia and in fact there's a synergy there since they both want the same thing - AMD to lose.